Crudity
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state of being crude. uncountable
- 2 an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement wordnet
- 3 A crude act or characteristic. countable
"What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."
- 4 a wild or unrefined state wordnet
- 5 Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"For there is no meat whatſoeuer, though otherwiſe wholeſome and good, but if it be vnſeaſonably taken, or immoderatly vſed, more then the ſtomack can well beare, will ingender crudity, and doe much harme."
Example
More examples"What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.
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